Author Will Van Dalsem

Last Thursday, Top Dawg Entertainment gave hip-hop fans around the world a brand new Kendrick Lamar release consisting of eight untitled, unfinished records from the sessions of 2015’s To Pimp a Butterfly. Afte...

Last week, legendary folk singer and songwriter Bob Dylan (born Robert Zimmerman) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Critics seem to be praising this decision as “redefining boundaries of literature”. H...

Five short years ago, Danny Brown was a 30-year-old rapper still pining for a place on hip-hop’s main stage. Today, with Atrocity Exhibition, he’s made what very well may be the best rap album of 2016.
Danny...

2016 has been very, very kind to diehard music fans. We’ve been spoiled, really. Some of music’s most prolific, influential, popular artists have returned in 2016 with solid new material. There’s been great rec...

Yesterday, on the heels of their electrifying Global Citizen Festival performance in Central Park, Metallica debuted the second single “Moth Into Flame” from their upcoming tenth studio album Hardwire...

Under normal circumstances, I’m the type of person that cherishes personal space, but Danny Brown made me forget all about my nagging claustrophobia.
When the drum introduction to “Die Like a Rockstar” blare...

Earlier this summer, news broke that Lady Gaga had spent time in the studio with Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker. Personally, I was intrigued by this collaboration, because to me it seemed as if Gaga was hopping on ...

2016’s been an exciting year for rap music, but the majority of the hype within the hip-hop community has been centered around records from already-established MCs. Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar, ScHoolboy Q, Trav...

Just to set the record straight, I love Metallica. The thrash metal titans from San Fransisco are definitely one of my top five favorite artists of all time. I saw them in concert on their Death Magnetic tour i...

I was planning on accompanying my “Top 10 Performances from Outside Lands 2016” with my ten least favorite performances of Outside Lands 2016. But the festival was so damn good that I could only come up with se...

This past Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, I was fortunate enough to attend San Francisco’s music festival, Outside Lands. This year’s lineup was beyond stacked! I had the opportunity to see mind-blowing performa...